Staff Platform Engineer (DevEx)

Requirements

• You are recognised as deeply experienced in developer platforms or related infra: devcontainers, remote development, remote IDE backends, or developer workstation tooling. You’re sought out for advice and design reviews by multiple teams.
• Demonstrated shipping production systems and delivering cross-team initiatives that impact group goals. Comfortable owning end-to-end technical delivery from design to production.
• Hands-on experience with CLI/tooling platforms and developer UX; practical experience with languages and tooling used for developer tooling (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript) and infra as code (Terraform).
• Practical experience with JetBrains remote backend flows or Codespaces/Codeserver-style products.
• Experience with BuildBuddy or remote build/execution systems, large cache architectures, or Firecracker/lightweight VM snapshotting.
• Experience integrating LLM/AI tooling into developer flows (on-device or code-local assistants such as Claude Code), including considerations for privacy, auditability and safe defaults.
• Excellent communicator who can influence Product and senior stakeholders and align multiple non-adjacent teams.
• Experience of working closely and building relationships with customer engineering groups

What You'll Be Doing

• You will define the technical solutions for important business problems and understand the context in which large company decisions are made, including;
• Define and own the technical architecture for local and remote dev flows: including devcontainers, IDE remote backends, and build seamless integration points into our engineering ecosystem
• Design and continuously improve the paved-path developer journeys: time-to-first-change, onboarding flows (MSC distribution, Tailscale setup), IDE remote flows, and UX for day-to-day developer tasks. Instrument and iterate based on developer metrics and feedback.
• Own the integration strategy for remote execution (BuildBuddy or equivalent), accelerate development on the company monorepo (Pedregal). Define caching/invalidation approaches and CI/remote-exec interactions to keep developer loops fast and predictable.
• Your work will also include forecasting and managing project timelines and risks, and setting a sustainable and incremental team pace.

Perks and Benefits

• At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. Benefits differ by country, but we offer many benefits in areas including healthcare, well-being, parental leave, pensions, and generous annual leave allowances, including time off to support a charitable cause of your choice. Benefits are country-specific, please ask your recruiter for more information.